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Over the past week I've travelled to Boulder CO and San Francisco meeting people for business and also taking the opportunity to meet some Twitter people IRL. It has been interesting to discuss some of the cultural differences between my home (Australia) and the US. Two moments of
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Is it just me, or is there an air of desperation whenever web startups are talking to venture capitalists (VCs) at events? I'm not talking about the formal meetings with VCs, rather about those informal meetings over coffee or in the breaks. Was interesting to sit there at
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In the business arena social media will continue to enable the agile enterprise. Social media provides businesses with the ability to build relationships. This will continue, with many organisations using social media to assist in the area of new product development – crowdsourcing new features as with recent examples by Dell,
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Over the next few years we are likely to see the continued integration and convergence of devices, media and channels, with users taking technology with them wherever they go, instead of being tied down to the immovable PC at home or the office. The term mobile will have a greater
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Social media is being woven into the fabric of our daily lives almost without us noticing. Most mainstream news sites now have user comments and voting, and they embed video that we can share. Sites like Facebook and MySpace are going mainstream; even parents are getting involved so as to
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I've been to a lot of conferences but one of the most impressive in terms of logistics and use of social media was eLearning08. Held at the Roundhouse at University of NSW in Sydney this conference was for RTOs (registered training organisations) who are working to embed e-learning
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In recent years the idea of good management has become somewhat unfashionable. Instead, writers and researchers have focused on leadership. This has led to a serious dearth of good management in our organisations. Thus, while managers are poncing about being 'leaders', our businesses and our people are suffering
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In a great book Bob Sutton has talked about his no asshole rule (No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't) and he has evangelised the idea of a workplace free from bullying. We are reaching a stage in our society where it is
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The theme for Le Web 08 is LOVE. Strangely I was walking around the area where the conference is being held earlier today and realised that the square nearby the ancient looking church of St Christopher was where the Edict of Nantes was proclaimed in 1598. How, you might ask,
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What does this work devil phenomenon tell us about the modern workplace? It tells us that in spite of the rhetoric about caring for staff, the reality is that as long a manager is seen as delivering results it does not matter what damage is done to the human beings